Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune are said to be an ancient race of people small in stature, who lived in Hawaii before settlers arrived from Polynesia. Many scholars attribute ancient structures ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

This is the story of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, and of the teachings of Stoicism, which influenced his journey.

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...

The find has already earned a punchy nickname: “Port Talbot’s Pompeii.” While no one is claiming volcanic ash here, the idea is that centuries of relatively undisturbed ground may have kept walls, ...

In the religious landscape of the ancient Levant, she appears as Asherah, a goddess intimately linked to early Yahwistic worship before being systematically removed. In later Christian memory, ...

Maritime archaeologists from Denmark's Viking Ship Museum have unearthed an extraordinary find beneath the waters near Copenhagen - the largest medieval cog ever discovered. The 600-year-old vessel ...

It is well-known that Pythagoras’ ancient Greek equation for right triangles: a2+ b2= c2 , is older than ancient Greece. We also know that in Khufu’s pyramid the height equals the radius of a circle ...